What is at work here is a visual language that relies heavily on connotation, as described by Barthes. These connotations underscore the intertitle’s line of argumentation and address the sensory experience of the audience. A careful analysis of the style involved in the image construction reveals a homogenous pattern that can be described as a soft style. According to David Bordwell et al. (1985: 341), the soft style emerged and became the norm in the 1920s.